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New research has confirmed that the atmosphere of Uranus smells like rotten eggs.A team of scientists came to this conclusion after discovering hydrogen sulfide in the planet's atmosphere.The planet's distance from Earth has made it difficult to draw this conclusion in the past.

Hold your jokes: Uranus smells like rotten eggs, a team of researchers has found.

A new study in the online journal Nature Astronomy has concluded hydrogen sulfide, which makes rotting eggs smell bad, is abundant in the planet's atmosphere. Because of its distance from Earth, the exact composition of Uranus's atmosphere has been difficult to investigate, but scientists are finally able to conclude that the planet probably smells really bad.

"It adds another piece of information about the planets ," study author Patrick Irwin from the University of Oxford told Gizmodo. "Uranus and Neptune formed in a colder part of the solar nebula than Jupiter and Saturn."

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To draw their conclusion, the scientists involved in the study looked at sunlight that was reflected above the visible cloud layer and discovered the hydrogen sulfide in the atmosphere. This sets Uranus apart from Jupiter and Saturn in yet another way, as those two planets have plenty of ammonia but , Science Alert said.

Of course, it wouldn't be possible for a human to take a whiff of the planet's atmosphere before he or she died in the extremely cold temperatures, exceeding minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit, in addition to the unwelcoming atmosphere that's made mostly of helium, hydrogen and methane, Irwin also said.

"If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus's clouds, they would be met with ," Irwin told BBC.com.

There are currently no plans to send NASA missions to Uranus, but since last year,the agency has supported research , according to Inverse.